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Tech Integration Project
Lesson Accelerator: Project Launcher

Extra, Extra!
Application: Word 2003
Platform: PC

Description

The process for creating the example project using Microsoft® Word 2003 is described below. The Completed Project Movie shows what the finished product might look like. The tutorial movies that follow demonstrate, step-by-step, how to construct the Extra, Extra! newsletter using the sample articles provided in the downloadable resource packet. This project can be easily modified or adapted for creating document templates for newsletters, reports, or presentations about other subjects currently under study. For a complete project description, including goals, objectives, and materials, see the Project Overview.
The Example Project
The Completed Project movie will show you what the completed example project looks like.
expand  Completed Project Movie
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. preview What the example project looks like 29927 1:18
Subscribers have access to download the resource materials for this project, which includes all example files, an assessment rubric, and information about adapting and extending the example project.
Creating Your Own Project
We will begin by creating a new document in Microsoft Word. We will create and format some graphic WordArt for the title of our newsletter, add a horizontal line, and text for the date of the newsletter. Then we'll change the body of the newsletter so that the article text will be in two columns. Since all of these things will remain the same from one newsletter to the next, we'll save our work as a document template that can be reused. We'll modify the template to contain articles about the current events going on in the classroom, before saving and printing a copy of the current newsletter.
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Changing the margins 29910 1:18
2. locked Viewing the Standard, Drawing, & Formatting toolbars 29911 1:11
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Using WordArt to create a title 29912 1:39
2. locked Moving & resizing WordArt 29913 1:13
3. locked Inserting a dividing line 29914 0:52
4. locked Customizing the line 29915 1:11
5. locked Adding the date 29916 1:24
6. locked Inserting a section break 29917 1:06
7. locked Adding columns 29918 1:26
8. locked Saving as a template 29919 2:03
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Toggling between two documents 29920 1:15
2. locked Copying & pasting or typing text in text boxes 29921 1:05
3. locked Formatting text pt. 1 29922 1:29
4. locked Formatting text pt. 2 29923 1:51
5. locked Inserting clip art 29924 1:29
6. locked Formatting clip art 29925 2:12
7. locked Spell checking your newsletter 29926 1:26
Tutorial Number Availability Status Tutorial Title Key # Length
1. locked Saving with a new name 29928 1:36
2. locked Printing your file 29929 1:46
Tutorial series by Michelle Manbeck
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